[78-L] The economy is Stan Getz's fault!

[soundthink at aol.com]

The daily Stockholm newspaper?Dagens Nyheter Oct 14 2008 edition, concluded that Stan Getz was ?partly to blame for the financial crisis now plaguing the world. The ?reason: After an article in the New York Times
?"Taking a hard new look at a Greenspan legacy"

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em

?The Swedish paper concluded that things might have been different?had Greenspan pursued a musical career.

? Turning to music and baseball

?ALAN GREENSPAN: Then, I decided that baseball was my thing. And I??
was actually getting very good, but at the age of 14, I hit a??
plateau and I never improved.

?JIM LEHRER: You were a left-hander, first baseman, right?

?ALAN GREENSPAN: I was a left-handed first baseman. I hit the ball??
pretty well. Then, I got into music, and I became a professional??
musician for a couple of years.

?JIM LEHRER: Played the clarinet...

?ALAN GREENSPAN: Clarinet, saxophone, flute, bass clarinet.

?JIM LEHRER: Which one did you enjoy the most?

?ALAN GREENSPAN: I actually enjoyed the clarinet the best, but I was??
a fairly good amateur, but a moderate professional. But what really??
did me in is I had, as an amateur, had to play next to Stan Getz. I??
was 16; he was 15. I decided, "Do I really want to be in this??
business?"

?JIM LEHRER: Why, because he was so good?

?ALAN GREENSPAN: Oh, my god.

?JIM LEHRER: Was he really good?

?ALAN GREENSPAN: And he was one of the really historic famous sax??
players. And the best economic decision I ever made in my life was??
to decide to leave the music business and go into economics. 


Cary Ginell

Origin Jazz Library
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